Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 30,331
Cover Image
Rewarding Carrots & Crippling Sticks: Eliciting Employee Preferences for the Optimal Incentive Mix in Europe
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
employee effort is the amount of discretion offered at work; (b) pay incentives and ‘gift exchanges’ are the most important … motivators; (c) the use of monitoring and Taylor-type assembly lines are the least effective incentives; and (d) the optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621344
Cover Image
Team governance: Empowerment or hierarchical control
Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 78 (2011) 1, pp. 1-13
We investigate the costs and benefits of managerial interventions with a team in which workers care to different degrees about output. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions by the manager may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573052
Cover Image
Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay
Vergé, Thibaud; Tominey, Emma; Ratto, Marisa - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712477
Cover Image
Rewarding carrots and crippling sticks: Eliciting employee preferences for the optimal incentive design
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodossiou, Ioannis - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 6, pp. 1247-1265
incentives is also revealed. The results suggest that the primary determinant of employee effort is job discretion, though …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051377
Cover Image
When higher prizes lead to lower efforts—The impact of favoritism in tournaments
Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 188-191
We investigate the relationship between tournament prices and effort choices in the presence of favoritism. High tournament prizes can decrease agents’ effort supply when the choice of the winner is not perfectly objective but affected to some extent by personal preferences of an evaluator.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011041567
Cover Image
Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay
Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma; Vergé, Thibaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
conflicting incentives to free-ride across and within subteams. Moreover, the relative size of subteams can be a powerful means to … deliver incentives when funds for performance rewards are limited. Using data for one of the incentive schemes piloted in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559804
Cover Image
Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2004
experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … reciprocity and inequality aversion reduce the attraction of performance related pay. Other-regarding preferences influence both … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005112731
Cover Image
Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Eriksson, Tor; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … reciprocity and inequality aversion reduce the attraction of performance related pay. Other-regarding preferences influence both … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763609
Cover Image
A Theoretical Reexamination of Privatization: Assessing its Welfare and Distributional Impacts
Ang, Alvin; Yamada, Masatoshi - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2005
Privatization was one of the significant public policy adopted by many countries in the last two decades. Previous and recent studies on its efficacy have focused mostly on the gains at the firm and industry levels. Differing from that approach, this paper attempts to reconsider impacts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650488
Cover Image
Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need … income inequality by 2030. However, the potential reduction can be fully accounted for by the projected convergence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107392